FSF is leading two day-long seminars on the GPL and Free Software licensing. The courses will be taught by Daniel Ravicher, Senior Counsel to FSF and Executive Director of the Public Patent Foundation; and Bradley Kuhn, FSF's Executive Director.

The Massachusetts Senate Post Audit Committee has called for hearing to take place in hearing room A1 at the State House in Boston (on Beacon Street, look for the gold dome) regarding adoption of the OpenDocument format.

On Friday, June 29, at 12 noon (EDT), the Free Software Foundation will
officially release the GNU GPL version 3. Please, join us in celebration
as we bring to a close eighteen months of public outreach and comment
in revision of the world's most popular free software license.
Beyond the creation of an improved license, the process of drafting
version 3 has helped highlight vital issues for the community of free
software users. This is a moment to thank both the thousands who participated
by commenting on the license and those who represented stakeholders
through the GPLv3 committee process.
Now, with the release of GPLv3, we will see new defenses extended to free
software. These defenses will continue the long history of fighting all
efforts to make free software proprietary.
Please, join us as we stream live footage of Richard Stallman announcing
GPLv3 from Noon (EDT) at www.fsf.org.
If you are in the Boston area you can also join us at the FSF offices
from 11:30am. Please let us know at <info@fsf.org> if you would like to
attend.
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Peter T. Brown
Executive Director
Free Software Foundation
51 Franklin St. 5th Floor
Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA

This year's meeting will focus on the practical efforts underway to
increase free software adoption and strengthen the free software
movement. With the theme "Year of the upgrade", we will discuss the FSF
campaigns and projects, and elicit a conversation with members about
where we need to focus our efforts.
Eben Moglen will set out a vision for the future with his speech “After
GPLv3”, and a panel of FSF board members will lead an interactive
discussion on the work of the FSF.
Following on from the success of last years members forum, we have
invited a few distinguished members to speak and discuss their work, and
this year we welcome Mako Hill to talk about his work “Defining free
culture”.